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America's generals love to brag about their all-volunteer Army. That's because they tend to overlook Jeffrey Mellinger. He donned his Army uniform for the first time on April 18, 1972, about the time the Nixon Administration was seeking "peace with honor" in Vietnam and The Godfather was opening on the silver screen. Nearly 37 years later, he's still wearing Army green. Mellinger is, by all accounts, the last active-duty draftee serving in the U.S. Army.

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The US Army draft ended on 28 September 1971, when President Nixon signed Public Law 92-129. However, several names already had been selected and inducted over the next 18 months. Archie Turner was the last known person drafted into the US Army, on June 30, 1973.

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